There was nothing like the Polyphonic Spree when the group formed in 2000 at the height of nu metal-dom. The Dallas-based band was the welcome opposite of nu metal’s dour and doomed view. The sunny ...

Chris Penn, Tim DeLaughter and the Polyphonic Spree hosted their annual pre-Christmas extravaganza and variety show on Saturday. Now in its 19th year, the event is filled with music, Christmas ...

It should be a no-brainer that live music fans would come out to see a sixteen-piece white-robed bright pop ensemble, simply for the spectacle. I guessed the crowd would be a gathering of Bonnaroo- ...

The Polyphonic Spree members walk everywhere among us. Most are unrecognizable at a glance, but one could sense a jubilant energy just waiting to jump out. They’re behind you in the checkout line, ...

Despite the supposedly perpetual sunny disposition of the guy who leads a robe-laden choir through soaring, psychedelic, symphonic pop music with messianic enthusiasm, The Polyphonic Spree bandleader ...

The gigantic band has taken its joyful, exuberant Christmas music on the road, touring the country with its "Holiday Extravaganza." Hear the group... The Polyphonic Spree On World Cafe The Polyphonic ...

At its holiday show in Dallas, the Polyphonic Spree - the 20-plus person choral symphonic rock band - operated as it is wont to do, making use of light and dark, quiet and loud to steer its ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

UPDATE: The Polyphonic Spree have now released a video of the band performing their Rush cover of "The Spirit of Radio" in the studio prior to the 2020 lockdown. The performance-based clip also has an ...

DENTON - Inside the planetarium at the University of North Texas, the skies have grown flowers, the trees have turned purple and the soggy kingdom under the sea wriggles with day-glo creatures.

There was an audible gasp from the crowd when Tim DeLaughter sat down at the front of the stage after a rousing, jumpy encore cover of the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and ...

For a band known for exuding love and joy, the Polyphonic Spree rose from the ashes of great sorrow. Band founder Tim DeLaughter formed the group 15 years ago in the wake of a beloved friend’s death.